Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Obama Spied On Trump Campaign

Barack Obama isn’t going to like this at all. An IBD/TIPP poll shows that “Americans overwhelmingly believe the Obama administration ‘improperly surveilled’ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.” You know, spied on Trump just as he claimed they did from the beginning. Honestly, if you know anything about Obama at all, how could you even consider he wouldn’t spy on Trump? The media has lied about this from the beginning. But even with their best efforts on the subject, Americans don’t believe them and instead instinctively know that Obama did spy and then cover it up with the help of the FBI and the Justice Department.

These poll results emphatically show that the majority of Americans no longer believe the media who are pushing the exact opposite of what the reality is out there. People don’t believe that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 campaign and that the heroic FBI is being unfairly smeared by Trump’s demonic defenders. They know it’s a lie. The media has lost this battle. After over a year of continuous smearing of the President and relentless propaganda being fed to the public, the polled results are telling. Over 900 Americans were polled in this specific poll.

The poll also suggests that many Americans think the roots of the allegations made against Trump extend beyond the two major party campaigns in the last presidential election and deep into the Obama era’s intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies, and may involve active political bias on the part of supposedly nonpartisan employees of both the Justice Department and FBI. Ya think? In the IBD/TIPP survey of public opinion, respondents were asked, “How closely are you following news stories about the role played by the FBI and the Department of Justice during the 2016 presidential election?” Of those who responded, 72% said they were following the story either “very closely” (39%) or “somewhat closely” (33%). The poll was comprised from those who were following the story closely.

A clear majority of 55 percent believe it is “likely” that the Obama administration “improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.” That includes 31 percent of Democrats, 87 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of Independents. That’s simply stunning. And I believe it is worse than that. A clear majority of 54 percent want a special counsel to investigate “whether the FBI and the Department of Justice improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.” Only 44 percent said no. The partisan breakdown shows that 74 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of Independents want a special counsel — as do a full 44 percent of Democrats. Just wow.

Only 35 percent, however, believe the FBI and the Justice Department attempted to outright frame President Trump for colluding with the Russians. I personally think that is a mistake as it is obvious they did. That opinion will change as more of these memos surface. Already, the evidence is damning on that count. A just-released Rasmussen poll shows that a full 50 percent of Americans “believe it’s at least somewhat likely senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency.” Only 40 percent disagree.

Another Rasmussen poll from this week shows that only 42 percent of Americans believe Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election more than the FBI. Moreover, a full 34 percent believe the FBI meddled more than the Russians, while 24 percent are unsure. I am 100 percent sure the Russians meddled more than the FBI, but they always do. The FBI meddling is treasonous and more of a threat in actuality. Evidently, we now live in a country where 58 percent of Americans either believe our own FBI meddled in a presidential election more than a hostile foreign government, or are not sure the FBI did not. That says a whole heck of a lot right there.

Trump’s approval rating is now greater than Obama’s was at this point in his presidency. That number is way underestimated I believe as well. I think Trump has been approved of more ever since he came into office, but it’s hard to discern the truth in polls these days. You have to go with your gut. It would appear that the question going forward may well become: What did President Obama know about the dossier and when did he know it? My money’s on from the very beginning Obama knew and had a hand in all of it.